Carry Quotes - page 2

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations. View quote
Vitruvius
At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts. View quote
Vitruvius
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. View quote
Andre Norton
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. View quote
Giambattista Vico
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget. View quote
Daniel Suarez
. . . you know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es. View quote
George Eliot
Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. View quote
Truman Capote
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. (W. Somerset Maugham)
In mainstream economic theory, the firm and the market are, for the most part, assumed to exist and are not themselves the subject of investigation. One result has been that the crucial role of the law in determining the activities carried out by the firm and in the market has been largely ignored. View quote
Ronald Coase
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities. View quote
Robert Nozick
We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own. View quote
George W. Bush
Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself. View quote
César Vallejo
In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. View quote
Don DeLillo
Misses the tale that I relate - This lesson seems to carry - Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. View quote
William Cowper
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more. View quote
William Cowper
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
Speak softly and carry a big stick. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better. View quote
J. K. Rowling
I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election. View quote
Warren G. Harding
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. View quote
John Newton